1A mocker of wine roars over strong drink, and whoever wanders in it is not wise.2The roaring of a lion is the terror of a king, and one who angers himself sins against his own soul.3Glory belongs to a man who ceases from strife, but every fool quarrels.4The sluggard does not plow because of autumn; he asks at harvest, and there is nothing.5Counsel in the heart of a man is deep water, and a man of understanding draws it out.6Many men proclaim their own kindness, but who can find a faithful man?7He who walks in his integrity is righteous; his sons are blessed after him.8A king sitting on the throne of judgment scatters all that is bad in his eyes.9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?10Stone and stone, ephah and ephah—both are an abomination to the LORD.11Even by his deeds a youth makes himself known, whether he is pure and whether his work is upright.12The ear that hears and the eye that sees—the LORD has made them both.13Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes and be satisfied with food.14Bad, bad, says the buyer; then he departs and boasts.15There is gold and an abundance of jewels, and the lips of knowledge are a precious article.16Take his garment, for he has pledged for a stranger, and for a foreign woman pledge him.17Food obtained by deception is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth is filled with gravel.18Plans are established by counsel, and with counsel wage war.19Whoever reveals counsel walks as a slanderer, and do not pledge to one who opens wide his lips.20Whoever curses his father and his mother—his lamp will be put out in the pupil of darkness.21An inheritance seized by greed and hastened at the first will not be blessed at its end.22Do not say, 'I will repay the evil'; wait for the LORD, and he will save you.23Diverse weights and a deceitful balance are an abomination to the LORD; they are not good.24A man's steps come from the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?25It is a snare for a man to blurt out something holy and afterward to inquire about vows.26A wise king scatters the wicked and brings a wheel back upon them.27The lamp of the LORD searches the breath of man and all the chambers of the belly.28Kindness and truth guard a king, and his throne is upheld by kindness.29The strength of youth is their beauty, and the glory of elders is greyheadedness.30Wounds and bruises cleanse what is bad, and blows reach the chambers of the belly.